22. července

This short announcement to tell you that we have opened a short survey about Game Character Hub. This survey goes along with our intent of ever-improving Game Character Hub and always providing you with new features.

Through this short form we aim to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of Game Character Hub, so that we can keep improving your GCH experience :) We also aim to know what are your expectations about the future of GCH so that we will put all our efforts in.

And there are no better ways of doing that than asking our valued community :) Your answers will help improve GCH and even better, help shape its future!

This survey has been made very short so that it will take you much less than five minutes to fill it in.

25. května

In addition to great deals, we are pleased to announce that we are publishing a new update for Game Character Hub! This update brings new features which we hope will make editing characters with GCH easier than ever!

This update comes along with a new item set Second Story (released independently) which should be published soon. This set will supply hundreds of new character parts for you to choose from! And we have heard your feedback: you are free to use assets of this new pack in commercial games and without an RPG Maker license or using RPG Maker engine!

Here is a complete list of changes that come in the new update:

The Change Grid Size window comes with many more features: you may now insert, duplicate, remove, clear rows columns or frames easily.

New pixel selection tools: you may now shrink and grow the pixel selection!

Informace o softwaru

Game Character Hub is the ultimate program for creating and editing 2D game assets. It provides a built-in generator for character and tileset creation. While the program was made to be compatible with RPG Maker XP, VX and VX Ace, the elements found in the program should work with other 2D game engines as well. RPG Maker assets are for RPG Maker use only.

Key Features

With Game Character Hub, you can easily create characters by choosing generator parts provided in the program. Simply select a template, add items and you're done! You can also create your own custom templates and parts. Note that almost the same logic applies to tilesets, so it doesn't necessarily need to be characters!

With Game Character Hub's flexible layering, you can easily customize parts according to your needs; such as changing the opacity, renaming, merging and deleting parts to name a few.

Game Character Hub's Preview window lets you see whats going on without having to stop what you're doing! You can pause the animation and change different settings such as the animation speed, background color and even zoom! You can also set custom animation previews with the Animation Management feature. Useful if you want to see if your Autotiles or Behaviour poses seamlessly transition to one another!

With Game Character Hub's palette editor, it's easier for you to create your own palettes and change values. What's more is that you can generate palette colors from all visible layers or specific ones. Great for finding the colors you need!

Tired of manually merging tile sheets on your own? Game Character Hub has a built in tileset merger to save you the work!

Game Character Hub allows you to easily convert your character assets for different RPG Maker engines.

Other Features Include...

Flexible GUI Layout - Change the layout of the program to your liking!

Expansive History Window - Easily undo and redo artwork at any point in time during development.

Despite what many people say this software is capable of making anything for RPG Maker Ace. The tools are self explanatory and very easy to use once you take the time to familiarize yourself with the interface. You can create custom sprite sheets, characters, even animations and battle backs. All you half to do is go into RPG Maker Ace and export the type of content you want to make and boom! instant template. Want to make a damaged character like you see in the default sprite sheets? Make your charter, import the pose you want and start cutting and adjusting your character to fit over the imported one and your done in ten minutes or less. Want to mix two tile sets together without risking messing up the format? Just use the grid system to copy past what tiles you want into the corresponding area. There is NOTHING that this can't make for RPG maker. All of the tools are there, just think outside the box and make them work for you.

PROS:- have many character and face portrait parts...- layering, hue and other paint.net options...- animation preview...- Steam Workshop (didn't tried that out, but some objects look nice, but a developer shouldn't rest on those)

CONS:- ...that you can find all in the specific RPG Maker- ...but paint.net is free- ...that sometimes doesn't appear and sometimes it does (don't see a pattern there)- you need to close the programm with the Task Manager in Windows 8.1 64 Bit (else steam say's forever Game Character Hub is still running)- the RPG Maker XP is a mess, every single part needs to be moved manual, because nothing fits- easy things are really laborious to do, like mark pixels, mark cells (much easier on paint.net)

CONCLUSION:I hope I mentioned all above, but all in all I can't recommend it. The RPG Maker VX/Ace editor is decent, but nothing special. Most parts are in the Character Generator of VX ACE, only 1 or 2 are from the GCH itself. For that pricing I really expect more, because there are free tools that are easier to use and have all the options GCH has. If you plan buying it for XP, then don't do it, every part needs to be moved manual!!!Probably the rating would be better, if "Second Story" would be implemented in the GCH and didn't cost another 3,99€ normal price or at the moment 2,99€. That way, it's a cheap rip of from the Game Creator from VX Ace which is not worth money. (\s/)

for intergration with the rmk series this is a good program. though there are better on the market this program does the job and has a nice sprite libary to add content to with the dlc included you dont get much but for what the program can do thats enough.

If you're using this for RPG Maker VX Ace so you can only make character sprites, save your money. The extent of sprite making this program offers is already available in VX Ace itself. I bought this hoping I could make sprites in more than the walking and standing positions, like how the default characters have special action sprites, but sadly it doesn't seem to have that feature.